Wilhelm von Amann

Wilhelm von Amann (16 July 1880-14 October 1959) was a Major-General of the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany. Von Amann was born to an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he would gain fame as a Reichswehr officer during the counter-revolution against the Communist Party of Germany in 1919. Von Amann was a general in the Wehrmacht during the Interwar period, but he did not see action during World War II, instead working on the general staff.

Biography
Wilhelm von Amann was born on 16 July 1880 in Ulm, Bavaria, German Empire to a wealthy, aristocratic Catholic German family. Von Amann enrolled in a military academy in 1898 and graduated in 1902, and Von Ammann served in World War I as a Captain, commanding a unit of Bavarian troops on the Western Front against France and the United Kingdom. After the war, Von Amann remained in the army as a Reichswehr officer, and he was tasked with swatting socialist uprisings in his homeland. Von Ammann's unit wiped out some of the rebels at the Battle of Egenhofen in 1919, where he killed the socialist leader Adelger Wach. In 1925, he rose to the rank of Colonel, and he was promoted to Major-General in 1933. Von Ammann was given command of the 213th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht under Adolf Hitler, and he also joined the Nazi Party. Von Amann was stationed in Krummhubel (Karpacz, Silesia, Poland) during the 1930s, guarding the border with Czechoslovakia. Von Amann was sent to work for the OKH during World War II, and he helped in planning German military operations. From 1945 to 1948, he was imprisoned in a British POW camp, and he died in Munich in 1959.